Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat Surges in Nepal, Indonesia Amid Protest Crackdowns
Jack Dorsey's Bitchat surges in Nepal, Indonesia amid protest crackdowns by @macbudkowski5764 🥝 • 1y • 0 views • 0 clicks | |
AI summary of the linked articleDownloads of Jack Dorsey's offline messaging app Bitchat surged in Nepal and Indonesia during national protests, with the Nepal spike tied to a government ban on social media. According to data from an open-source developer who goes by callebtc, Nepal downloads rose from just over 3,300 the previous Wednesday to 48,781 by Monday, making it the app's largest user base worldwide. The ban covered 26 platforms, including Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube and Instagram, and at least 34 people died in clashes before the ban was lifted. Christian Ruz, account director at crypto-native agency Hype, told Decrypt that decentralized, censorship-resistant apps will see an explosion in adoption. | |
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  Anyone on Bitchat here? :) just managed to get most of my friends and fam on Signal after many years … but there we go, I think mesh networking is very interesting tech. Just downloaded the app. UI looks very cool retro cyberpunk. Of course no one around. Just onboarded my girlfriend on Circles, don’t think she might be up for new tech experiments any time soon, but going to ask. https://bitchats.app/ | |
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